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Comment by Luuchithefallen

Judging from how it's a higher ilvl than the other bow, along with "of the earth" in it's name, it might be a drop from Deathwing? (comment wrote before Dragon Soul was released)

Comment by Cmoney

This bow looks awesome. Weird that it has no reforgeable stats as of right now...Edit: I see no reason for downrating... everything I said was accurate :P

Comment by Neazy

Will be a drop from Deathwing. The effect has a 15% chance to proc and deals 7950 fire damage over 2 seconds. It's basically a mini explosive shot.

For marks hunters, this will most definitely be pre-heroic BiS. It will also be BiS in PvP. Even if the proc was bugged and did 0 damage, the fact that this is 7 item levels above the next best ranged weapon would more than make up for it considering how well marks hunters scale with weapon DPS.

Comment by Tyrogs

I must have it! - But sadly its base model seems to get kind of standard. Only the Zandalari bows looked different

Comment by Knaar

Just got mine tonight :)

The proc scale with your mastery in Survival spec.

With 1445 Mastery it do 9230 dmg over 2 sec.With 1388 Mastery It do 9200 dmg over 2 sec.With 1208 Mastery it do 9120 dmg over 2 sec.

In MM spec, its at 7950 over 2 sec.

The dot is called : Speaking of Rage. In my case normal tick were around about 1k, crit tick were about 1.5k.

Its 10 ticks over 2sec, according to recount... will need someone to confirm that.

Nice way to help Survival hunters :)

Comment by Toroq

After obtaining the LFR version of this bow today, I went to try it on the dummies for a while as a SV/BM hunter.

It's not mentioned in the tooltip, but the DoT deals Fire damage, meaning it only causes an additional 50% damage on a crit, is affected by your spell crit chance, and gains bonuses from survivals additional magic damage.This was hotfixed on January 9th

Vishanka, Jaws of the Earth now invokes Speaking of Rage bonus damage that is treated as ranged damage and benefits from ranged critical strike chance. (Source)

The proc chance is 15% as mentioned in the effect if you click the text here on wowhead, and it does not appear to have an ICD. The DPS gain from the proc will be more significant in AoE situations, since it can proc on any target hit by multi shot and has no cooldown.

It appears to be able to proc from the instant damage from Improved Serpent Sting, but not the serpent sting DoT itself. Simply applying serpent sting without the talent does not appear to be able to proc it.The initional application of Explosive Shot and Black Arrow can proc the effect, but the DoTs cannot.

The DoT ticks 10 times over the course of the duration, i.e. every 0,2 seconds.

I believe the 2% from the proc is more than you would gain from secondary stats. The proc seems to have no ICD and procs roughly every 20 seconds (120 hits over 4 minutes.)Remember that bows are a ranged slot, so they get a lot less stat allocation compared to mainhand weapons. So don't cry when you see a weapon like Gurthalak doing more %. A 2h gets roughly 700 secondary stat allocation, whereas a ranged weapon such as the bow would only get 200.

Comment by Longtooth

Of all the good things that come with that bow there is one BAD that we should made Blizzard aware of.

This bow in a similar way to "Zod's" uses up his Durability in an increased rate

That means that it will get broken a lot lot faster than any normal bow.After getting this i just noticed how the bow lost 10% of it's durability over a 5 min test (no deaths involved)

I advice every hunter to do what he should have learned to do from the past: Keep a spare bow/gun/crossbow in his inventory, we will need it.

That and howl towards blizzard to fix it.

Comment by Tommerbob

Can anyone confirm whether it has an ICD or not? Every test I've seen, it never procs more than about every ~15 seconds.

Does anyone else feel that, comparing this to Gurthalak, this bow is severely undertuned? The sword has no ICD, I've spawned 3 separate tentacles at once, several times. Each tentacle does on average, 100k damage. Compare that to the ~10k damage every ~15-20 seconds this does, its almost a no-brainer.

All tests I've seen with the bow show the proc does 1.5-2% total dps. The sword does ~5-20% of total dps. What gives Blizzard?

Comment by Kipu

Comment by leozero

this bow is non existant, after 2 months of killing deathwing on regular we havent got a single drop of this, everything else have dropped a minimum of 2 times.its starting to become annoying specially since melee got that dumb buff for 10% more ap than hunters. souldrinker 4 times maw also 4 times... !@#$ you activision (i dont blame blizzard)

Comment by Alvarie

Not a terribly good bow, the loss of primary stats in place for a "DoT" which does roughly 2%~ of your total damage is kinda a bummer, compared to all the other Deathwing weapons. However, it does look freakin' awesome and the ranged damage is BiS for any non-heroic weapon. I took Heroic Horrifying Horn Arbalest over this, But im looking forward to a heroic Deathwing drop of this bow!

Best of luck to all who seek it!

~Alv

Comment by Tainaka

If you plan on using this in PvP, you have to be careful. As the equip effect will break cc!

Comment by Gamus

So why is it the bow in game (10M reg) shows the proc being 9040 over 2 seconds, and wowhead is showing the 10m Reg bow to be 7950? Me thinks this needs to be fixed

Comment by Hmmster

Comment by Emarelda

Hello. Look at your hunter. Now look at me. Now back to your hunter. Now back to me. Sadly, he isn't me, but if he stopped using Thori'dal, the Stars' Fury and started using Vishanka, Jaws of the Earth he could raid like he's me. Look down. Now back up. Where are you? You're in Dragon Soul, with the hunter your hunter could raid like. What's in your hand? Back at me. I have it. It's a rare Dragon soul Blacksmithing pattern. Look again. The pattern is now a bunch of Queen's Garnets. Anything can happen when your hunter raids like me and not a pansy. I'm on an Ochre Skeletal Warhorse.

This bow doesn't always drop, but when it does, it dropped with Kiril, the Beast's Fury. ;)

Comment by DemoraX

also worth pointing out that this WILL proc from Multishot :D

Comment by Overpowadin

I'm not sure if it's just me but as of July 25, 2012 the icon for Vishanka is different. I'm not sure if this is a mistake and will be fixed or if it is staying this way. It looks like some sort of strange golden object with green swirls around it.